8.30.2012

Episode 042 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin, Faid and Gimp bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode we discuss what we've been doing in gold-making, the Mists of Pandaria 5.0.4 pre-patch, the Bulk Mail Inbox addon and much more. And now on with the show!

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8.29.2012

As noted by Blizzard, the 5.0.4 ink traders appear to require Ink of Dreams as payment in the purchase window when in actuality you can still purchase inks with Blackfallow Ink.

While not totally unexpected this change took a few of us by surprise. In all of our own advice/reporting about the potential change we noted the ink trade lockout was only a possibility.

While this change may make any ink we may have stockpiled a bit less valuable, from all the reports I'm hearing most glyph sellers are making a lot of gold right now so that should help ease the pain.

That said, the UI still visually shows ink trades requiring Ink of Dreams so unless someone tries it themselves or reads Blizzard posts there may be some people who don't know Blackfallow Ink can still be traded in.

8.23.2012

Breaking news: Power Word: Gold reader Edladd just contacted us to let us now that they had discovered that there was a news update on their World of Warcraft Remote that stated that all the World of Warcraft Remote subscription features (remote auction house and guild chat) were now free to all World of Warcraft subscribers. Head past the jump for the news.

8.22.2012

To buy multiple vendor items at one time hold the Shift key while right or left clicking an item in a vendor window. A small dialog will come up and allow you to enter how many items (up to the max stack size) you would like to purchase.

If you're buying large quantities of vendor items you might also try the addon BuyEmAll which allows you to enter a purchase amount over the max stack size. Below is a screenshot of BuyEmAll in action.

8.17.2012

By far the most popular question I've been asked in the last two weeks has been "What should I stockpile for Mists of Pandaria?". Each time I feel that I must disappoint the questioner when I give my answer.

It's not that I haven't given it a lot of thought it's just that I'm not really much of a stockpiler. Never have been. Likely never will be.

That said, read on past the jump for the few items I have decided to sock away and/or wait to sell in Mists of Pandaria.

The Undermine Journal recently added new "global" item pages that provide some pretty damning evidence that item duplication is indeed happening. Read on past the jump for my thoughts on item duping and how we can react to it.

8.09.2012

Episode 039 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your host Jim Younkin and guest Sapu bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your host Jim Younkin and guest Sapu discuss upcoming visual changes to TradeSkillMaster, features of the upcoming TradeSkillMaster desktop application, Sapu takes questions and much more. And now on with the show!

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8.06.2012

There has been much speculation around what would happen to our current pets when it comes to the Pet Battles system being introduced in Mists of Pandaria.

We've seen a blue post indicating that some pets may become "Rare" when caged. Some have done analysis on where these pets come from.

To set the record straight (at least as far as the current beta build is concerned) I wanted to test caging all my pets on the current Beta client (Beta Client: 5.0.4 (15929) Jul 31, 2012) and see what happened. Head past the jump for my (rather interesting) results.

8.01.2012

Today's post is my response to a reader who had a problem in their 77-80 Cataclysm Items market with people posting items at prices below their "threshold price" but above their "buying price".

In essence, these sellers were perceived to be selling items in the reader's pricing "blind spot". Head past the jump for our email exchange, possible solutions and thoughts on the importance of constantly analyzing our markets.